The only thing that stops the dust is the rain. It’s a sweet reprieve, but there is no middle ground. The land is either as dry as the Betty Ford clinic, or as wet as the ocean floor. Everything can be seen from the ridge overlooking Armadillo as John Marston gently bounces along atop...

Why don't NASA use kickstarter? If the govt. doesn't want to fund it, let the people do it directly. $5 could get you like access to a little mini-site with tons of info on the mission and some exclusive stuff, like maybe a higher res stream and stuff. $20 could get you a couple stickers posted out, $50 could get you a shirt, $500 could get you like a little jar with 5g of mars dirt or something and $5000 could get you access to a party with the dudes who're part of the launch.

It'd also make it international - i bet a couple hundred thousand people from other countries would give some money, and then maybe we could get the future of the human race back on fucking track.

Although personally, i'd bury the 'the waste will be dehydrated, so the wastewater can be recycled for drinking.' detail away from the public, because seriously you guys, that's so bad i will fucking build my own little space rocket to send them a couple jugs of water. Hell, let them borrow some from the ISS and we'll just resupply the ISS later. But for gods sake, only recycle water from the piss. At least the piss looks like a liquid, and doesn't even taste bad if you have diabeetus.
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I think a lot of people want to stop giving other countries billions in foreign aide every year. We would rather it go to nasa. Or even better to helping our own countries problems.

And as far as I understand they want the private sector to pick up space exploration now. say hello to space hotels. Im not sure why you would want to stay in one for long.

I do really want to try one of those zero gravity flights. They go into a free fall and everyone gets to experience close to zero gravity for a few minutes. Id probably throw up though. I get air sick._________________“I do like metaphorical heroin and my heroin dealer. EA”